NUVO breaks the story: Indianapolis loves Haiti. For years, hundreds of groups from Central Indiana have been partnering with Haitians. Half of all Hoosier households donated money to victims of the devastating earthquake in 2010. Provocate—Haiti’s Amy King explains her love affair with Haiti and how Haiti has transformed her life.
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You shouldn’t go to something called a “Hunger Banquet” expecting to be filled with delicious foods from around the world … but you might get lucky. Chances are most of the readers of Provocate did get lucky early in life. Most of us were born into families in countries in which we expect and get several tasty and nutricious meals every day. We don’t have to worry about getting enough for our kids to live on. Most people in the world are not so fortunate. Again, it’s the unmerited luck of where and to whom you were born. That’s what a Hunger Banquet is supposed to illustrate. When you enter, you are randomly assigned to a group. The First World minority eats plenty of tasty food. The majority eats a nutricious but barely filling and not exciting meal. The sizable minority randomly assigned to the Third World gets barely enough to get by. Read the full story »
If you have been kicking yourself for missing the humanitarian speed dating at the Athenaeum on January 25, lighten up on yourself! You have another chance to experience fifteen of Indy’s most innovative and most effective organizations devoted to changing the world on Wednesday, March 21st
It was a special night at the Athenaeum theatre January 25th, with thirteen remarkable social entrepreneurs and social change artists on display. The sheer range of activities for these groups was itself remarkable.
Join Provocate-Haiti’s Amy King as she welcomes California IMAX filmmakers of Rescue 3D to Indianapolis for a special screening. The film will be great; great too will be the chance to meet dozens of your friends and neighbors who have been helping Haitians rebuild their country.
For the past couple of months there’s been a buzz around Indy about something called Evolver. Very off-beat films, discussions of unified field theory, raw food workshops … we at Provocate love these kinds of events. But we discovered that Evolver is even cooler than cool events.
NUVO breaks the story: Indianapolis loves Haiti. For years, hundreds of groups from Central Indiana have been partnering with Haitians. Half of all Hoosier households donated money to victims of the devastating earthquake in 2010. Provocate—Haiti’s Amy King explains her love affair with Haiti and how Haiti has transformed her life.
Chances are no one was fully prepared for the enthusiasm and the wide-ranging projects of the thirteen social entrepreneurs who laid out their work in four minutes each. The folks who attended agreed the evening was fun and funny, profound and pride-instilling. But was it important?
Even if Provocate wasn’t part of putting the event on, there’s little doubt that Humanitarian Speed Dating at the Athenaeum January 25 would be our pick of the week. It doesn’t get much cooler than …
Thanks to the Bluevine Collective for letting us reprint an article by Friend of Provocate Kelly Campbell, herself an important part of the redefinition of Indy as humanitarian hub.
Humanitarian Speed Dating — January 25
Fifteen of Indy’s most innovative social entrepreneurs will get together at the Athenaeum to tell us what they are doing, why it’s important, and how we can help them change …
Provocate’s Pick of the Week
“The Tragedy: Lessons learned from leadership that began with great promise and ended in great evil — The case of Jim Jones and the People’s Temple in Indianapolis”
what’s happening at the …
Every day brings new stories of parties and celebrations connected to Super Bowl XLVI. We here at Provocate aren’t really interested in parties intended only for pretty and rich people who are coming to Indy from out of town. It’s not like we get invited to those parties anyhow. But parties intended for Indy folks to celebrate the Super Bowl coming to us, well that’s another story. And if the eyes of the world are turning to Indy, why not show the world how Indy is going global? That means joining Big Car and buddies for World Party — III nights of international celebration at the Service Center. See just how international the city is becoming.
As part of its Faith and Vocation series, Butler will host two of the world’s leading experts on Christianity in China: Fenggang Yang of Purdue and Lian Xi of Hanover College. Profs. Yang and Xi …
More events are being planned for Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day than any one person can consume. Even though the laws of time and space prevent you from attending all of the events, you …
The securitization of cyberspace has caused a sea change for both governments and the private sector, faced with new threats, new battlegrounds and new opportunities. Faced with challenges such as international cybercrime and authoritarian control of networks, how will the U.S. and its democratic allies approach the cyber frontier? How does this new domain figure in U.S. strategic interests?
Benjamin Beilman returns to the scene of his near triumph in the 2010 ICVI competition. Maybe he has been able to get some shoes.
As part of the celebration of Dr MLK Jr Day, Indiana historian Ray Boomhower discusses his book Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary.
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Dr. Rafael Lang of the Physics Department at Purdue University will lead a discussion concerning our current understanding of the Universe while illustrating a range of different observations. From this, it will become clear that Dark Matter is a key component, vastly more relevant than all the known matter taken together, be it stars, planets, dust, or even Black Holes. But what is Dark Matter, really?
Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. She is the author and/or editor of six books, including a senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women (2012), an advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life for the project “Global Survey of Muslims,” a frequent participant in the “Building Bridges” seminar, convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
On the final Saturday of every April, thousands of Hoosiers head to downtown Indianapolis to attend one of the nation’s largest Earth Day festivals. The Earth Day Indiana Festival combines 140 environmental and conservation exhibits with live music from some of Indiana’s best new bands, special activities for kids and good food.
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
This documentary traces the history of the Chinese-American influence in Hollywood cinema, including footage from more than 90 movies, ranging from 1890s paper prints to modern films.
Dan Rather is one of the most recognized and renowned reporters of our time. He has reported on the civil rights movement, Watergate and every presidential campaign since 1952.
Join fashion designer Timo Rissanen of Parsons School of Design and People for Urban Progress director Michael Bricker for a high-stakes conversation about designs that waste nothing. From apparel patterns that leave nothing on the cutting room floor or in the landfill, to repurposing colorful stadium seats to punctuate a cityscape, consider Indy’s place at the crossroads of design decisions as smart as they are sustainable
Bringing together leading national and Indiana organizations, students, activists, and community leaders from across the state to plan, organize, and mobilize for genocide prevention.
Indiana global journalist Doug Wissing speaks to the North United Methodist Church to kick off its Great Decisions series. Wissing is author of a forthcoming book about how the US lost the war in Afghanistan, Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban.
Originally from Ethiopia, Ms. Darar walked through the Sudanese Desert towards Israel at age 6, with her family and 11,000 other Ethiopians, seeking a better life without persecution.
